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.hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">For the supervisor of the production of kosher food, see <a href="/wiki/Mashgiach" title="Mashgiach">Mashgiach</a>.</div> <p>A <b>mashgiach ruchani</b> (<a href="/wiki/Hebrew_language" title="Hebrew language">Hebrew</a>: <span lang="he" dir="rtl">משגיח רוחני</span>; pl., <i>mashgichim ruchani'im</i>), sometimes <b>mashgiach</b> for short, is a spiritual supervisor or guide. They are usually a <a href="/wiki/Rabbi" title="Rabbi">rabbi</a> who has an official position within a <a href="/wiki/Yeshiva" title="Yeshiva">yeshiva</a> and is responsible for the non-academic areas of yeshiva students' lives.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The position of mashgiach ruchani arose with the establishment of the modern "<a href="/wiki/Litvaks" title="Litvaks">Litvak</a>-style" <a href="/wiki/Musar_movement" title="Musar movement">musar yeshivas</a>. The prototype of this new type of rabbinical leader and educator was Rabbi <a href="/wiki/Nosson_Tzvi_Finkel_(Slabodka)" title="Nosson Tzvi Finkel (Slabodka)">Nosson Tzvi Finkel</a> (1849-1927) known as the Alter (elder) of the Slabodka yeshiva, <a href="/wiki/Yeshivas_Knesses_Yisrael_(Slabodka)" title="Yeshivas Knesses Yisrael (Slabodka)">Yeshivas Knesses Yisrael (Slabodka)</a>, in Lithuania. </p><p>The role of the mashgiach ruchani was strongest in the era before <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>, when often the mashgichim were responsible for maintaining the yeshiva financially, recruiting and interviewing new students, and hiring staff, something akin to academic <a href="/wiki/Dean_(education)" title="Dean (education)">deans</a>. After <a href="/wiki/The_Holocaust" title="The Holocaust">the Holocaust</a>, the influence and position of the mashgiach decreased, and the roles of the <a href="/wiki/Rosh_yeshiva" title="Rosh yeshiva">rosh yeshivas</a> have grown at the expense of those of the mashgichim. A modern mashgiach/mashgicha is somewhat equivalent to the secular <a href="/wiki/School_counselor" title="School counselor">counselor</a> position. The need for having mashgichim within the modern yeshivas was tied in with the rise of the modern <a href="/wiki/Musar_movement" title="Musar movement">musar movement</a> (teaching of Jewish ethics), inspired by the 19th-century rabbi <a href="/wiki/Israel_Salanter" title="Israel Salanter">Israel Salanter</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (December 2008)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup>. </p><p>Some yeshivas may refer to a mashgiach/mashgicha ruchani as a <i>menahel ruchani</i> (the word <i>menahel</i> means 'principal', as in the principal of a school, or 'supervisor'.) </p><p><a href="/wiki/Chabad" title="Chabad">Chabad</a> yeshivas have a similar position referred to as <a href="/wiki/Mashpia" title="Mashpia">mashpia</a>, meaning a person who provides (spiritual) influence.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (December 2008)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Famous_mashgichim">Famous mashgichim</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mashgiach_ruchani&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Famous mashgichim"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Nosson_Tzvi_Finkel_(Slabodka)" title="Nosson Tzvi Finkel (Slabodka)">Nosson Tzvi Finkel</a> (1849-1927) mashgiach ruchani of <a href="/wiki/Yeshivas_Knesses_Yisrael_(Slabodka)" title="Yeshivas Knesses Yisrael (Slabodka)">Yeshivas Knesses Yisrael (Slabodka)</a>, Lithuania</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Meir_Chadash" title="Meir Chadash">Meir Chodosh</a> (1898-1989), mashgiach ruchani of the <a href="/wiki/Hebron_Yeshiva" title="Hebron Yeshiva">Hebron Yeshiva</a>, and later of <a href="/wiki/Yeshiva_Ohr_Elchonon_(Jerusalem)" title="Yeshiva Ohr Elchonon (Jerusalem)">Ohr Elchonon</a> and Yeshivat Ateret Yisrael, <a href="/wiki/Israel" title="Israel">Israel</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Yehuda_Leib_Chasman&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Yehuda Leib Chasman (page does not exist)">Yehuda Leib Chasman</a>, mashgiach ruchani of the Hebron Yeshiva, Israel</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eliyahu_Eliezer_Dessler" title="Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler">Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler</a> (1892-1953), mashgiach ruchani of the <a href="/wiki/Ponevezh_yeshiva" class="mw-redirect" title="Ponevezh yeshiva">Ponevezh yeshiva</a> in <a href="/wiki/Bnei_Brak" title="Bnei Brak">Bnei Brak</a>, Israel</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Binyamin_Finkel&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Binyamin Finkel (page does not exist)">Binyamin Finkel</a>, mashgiach ruchani of Yeshivas Mishkan Yisrael, Jerusalem</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yechezkel_Levenstein" title="Yechezkel Levenstein">Yechezkel Levenstein</a> (1895-1974), mashgiach ruchani of <a href="/wiki/Mir_yeshiva_(Belarus)" class="mw-redirect" title="Mir yeshiva (Belarus)">Mir yeshiva</a>, Poland</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yeruchom_Levovitz" title="Yeruchom Levovitz">Yeruchom Levovitz</a> (1873-1936), mashgiach ruchani of the <a href="/wiki/Mir_yeshiva_(Belarus)" class="mw-redirect" title="Mir yeshiva (Belarus)">Mir yeshiva</a>, Poland</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moshe_Rosenstein" class="mw-redirect" title="Moshe Rosenstein">Moshe Rosenstein</a> (1880-1941), mashgiach ruchani of <a href="/wiki/Lomza_Yeshiva" title="Lomza Yeshiva">Lomza Yeshiva</a>, Poland</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Don_Segal&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Don Segal (page does not exist)">Don Segal</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Beryl_Weisbord&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Beryl Weisbord (page does not exist)">Beryl Weisbord</a>, mashgiach ruchani of <a href="/wiki/Yeshivas_Ner_Yisroel" title="Yeshivas Ner Yisroel">Yeshivas Ner Yisroel</a>, Baltimore</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elyah_Lopian" title="Elyah Lopian">Elyah Lopian</a> (1876-1970) mashgiach ruchani of <a href="/wiki/Knesses_Chizkiyahu" title="Knesses Chizkiyahu">Knesses Chizkiyahu</a>, Israel</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Matisyahu_Salomon" title="Matisyahu Salomon">Matisyahu Salomon</a> (1937 - 2024) mashgiach ruchani of <a href="/wiki/Gateshead_Talmudical_College" title="Gateshead Talmudical College">Gateshead Yeshiva</a> and later, <a href="/wiki/Beth_Medrash_Govoha" title="Beth Medrash Govoha">Beth Medrash Govoha</a> (the Lakewood Yeshiva)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nosson_Meir_Wachtfogel" title="Nosson Meir Wachtfogel">Nosson Meir Wachtfogel</a> (1910-1998), mashgiach ruchani of Beth Medrash Govoha (the Lakewood Yeshiva), USA, from 1941 to 1998</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shlomo_Wolbe" title="Shlomo Wolbe">Shlomo Wolbe</a> (1914-2005)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dov_Yaffe" title="Dov Yaffe">Dov Yaffe</a> (1928-2017), mashgiach ruchani of <a href="/wiki/Knesses_Chizkiyahu" title="Knesses Chizkiyahu">Knesses Chizkiyahu</a>, Israel</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Avigdor_Miller" title="Avigdor Miller">Avigdor Miller</a> (1908-2001) mashgiach ruchani of <a href="/wiki/Yeshiva_Rabbi_Chaim_Berlin" title="Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin">Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin</a>, USA, from 1944 to 1964</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shlomo_Carlebach_(scholar)" title="Shlomo Carlebach (scholar)">Shlomo Carlebach (scholar)</a>, (1925-2022) mashgiach ruchani of <a href="/wiki/Yeshiva_Rabbi_Chaim_Berlin" title="Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin">Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin</a>, USA, from 1966 to 1978</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Daniel_Rhein&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Daniel Rhein (page does not exist)">Daniel Rhein</a> mashgiach ruchani of <a href="/wiki/Yeshivat_Har_Etzion" title="Yeshivat Har Etzion">Yeshivat Har Etzion</a>, Israel, from 2001</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mashgiach_ruchani&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Rosh_Yeshiva" class="mw-redirect" title="Rosh Yeshiva">Rosh Yeshiva</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mussar_movement" class="mw-redirect" title="Mussar movement">Mussar movement</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mashpia" title="Mashpia">Mashpia</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mashgiach_ruchani&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>HaRav Schach: Conversations: Stories to Inspire the Yeshiva World</i>. 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